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Progress NC put roughly $120,000 into the school board race, sending mailers supporting Democratic candidates and opposing Republican ones. But while the outside spending appears to have given Democrats the fundraising advantage, it didn’t have the desired impact at the polls. It’s also not, as some have claimed, the work of billionaire George Soros.
Conservative parents and citizens across the country got a chance during the COVID-19 pandemic to see how their county school boards operated, and often they were not impressed. In New Hanover County, which is home to Wilmington and its coastal suburbs, a group called Tide Turners has formed to elect conservative school board members who
Protesters from various community groups gathered outside the New Hanover Board of Education Center ahead of Tuesday's meeting.
New Hanover County parents are pushing back against the school district and the state for new equity initiatives, calling them part of an agenda to bring critical race theory into schools. Critical race theory was developed in the 1970s as a way of looking at the context of the law when analyzing racial justice. It establishes that white supremacy and systemic racism is a part of everyday life and and states that while that racism is something people of color experience on a daily basis, it's unlikely to be eradicated because it benefits the white elite. School districts nationally have se...